Emile Hirsch and John Cusack star in this generic crime caper that might as well have been generated by a screenwriting algorithm

‘I thought the film was dead. But then one morning my newsagent, a fellow Arsenal fan, gave me a note that said: “Call Stephen Frears.” It was an unconventional approach’

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Stephen Frears’ smart adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel of stunted growth remains as compelling as ever with one of John Cusack’s best performances

One of the most fascinatingly strange and unpredictable films of 1999 still carries with it more pleasures to be discovered

When Hollywood strapped Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich and a host of bad guys into a plane, and crashed it on Vegas, what was the result? An action hit that was half prison flick, half rock video – and is, 20 years on, still dangerous

This crass, violent crime thriller, with Cage as a bulbous-nosed mobster, is laden with sentimental self-importance

John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson are phoning it in as survivors of a crisis that turns mobile users into mindless grunts